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About Nikky: Nikky is a single mother to an eight-year-old, a Certified Level 1 Animal Flow instructor, and works full-time as a lab technician. Before Bent On Better: Nikky struggled with her weight throughout elementary and high school. In college, she began the Special K diet, which involved eating two bowls of Special K cereal […]

Heart Problems Louise was born with a congenital heart problem known as a ventricular septal defect, or a hole in the heart. But it wasn’t until she was 12 years old that she went through open-heart surgery to “fix” the hole. Louise suffered from excruciating stabbing chest pains for years after her operation. While in

For the Love of Basketball Alysha has been a personal trainer and the athletic program director at Bent On Better for almost three and a half years now. Before B.O.B., Alysha was a professional basketball player and finished a criminal justice and sociology degree. Her fascination with detective fiction and her love of the CSI

The Gymnastics Journey When Shannon was ten, she began training in martial arts and eventually achieved the rank of black belt. Her gymnastics career followed as she always wanted to and continued until she graduated from high school. During her senior year of high school, she broke her foot at a gymnastics competition when she

Life Before Bent On Better Going 60 years old, Kathy Mann works as a travel advisor and has been a member with Bent On Better personal training gym for almost two years already. A few years back, Kathy was overweight, and even simple tasks like getting out of the car and taking a few steps

 A Beginner’s Journey to Fitness Sree has been a member of Bent On Better for three years now, she is an IT professional and lives in the West Chester area with her family. Before joining Bent On Better, she had never worked out. She was aware that she needed some form of routine, but

Before Bent On Better: After graduating college in 2013, Tyler worked in public accounting right away and dealt with intense and heavy workloads; he worked 60 hours a week, long nights and Saturdays included, and hardly got any free time to see his significant other or family.  It went pretty rough for him; he had

In Memory of Glenn: Glenn has always been a strong, reliable, athletic, and inspiring Bent On Better community member. He understood and appreciated his community, which made people naturally gravitate toward him. For Glenn, we want you to be remembered for the strength you and your wife have poured over our community, not just as